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delice

/dɪˈliːs/

delice noun: delight, pleasure, especially sensual pleasure.

Noun

delice (plural delices)

  1. (obsolete) Delight, pleasure, especially sensual pleasure.
    • he has pourd out his idle mind / In daintie delices, and lauish ioyes […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Verb

IPA/diːˈlaɪs/

delice (third-person singular simple present delices, present participle delicing, simple past and past participle deliced)

  1. (transitive) To rid of lice.
    • Every year, as a fixed ritual just before the spring break, the school held a delicing day.

Forms of delice

Noun
pluraldelices
Verb
third-person singular presentdelices
present participledelicing
past participledeliced
pastdeliced

Origin of delice

From Old French delice, from Latin dēlicium.

From de- + lice.

Words formed from delice

Words that rhyme with delice

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Questions about delice

What does delice mean?
Delice means delight, pleasure, especially sensual pleasure.
What part of speech is delice?
Delice can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce delice?
Delice is pronounced /dɪˈliːs/.
What is the plural of delice?
The plural of delice is delices.

Words near delice in the dictionary

  1. delicates
  2. delicatesse
  3. delicatessen
  4. delicatessens
  5. delicatest
  6. delice
  7. deliced
  8. delicence
  9. delicenced
  10. delicences
  11. delicencing

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